The Magenta Foundation's Flash Forward Festival has begun in Toronto and will run until Sunday, October 10th. With curated exhibitions, including a British, Swiss, American, Canadian and Group show, the festival will also play host to a number of amazing individuals, like Donald Weber, who will be giving free lectures and workshops for the Toronto community.
With Robyn McCallum, I co-curated the Canadian exhibition. Titled "Where is Here," the exhibition is framed by Northrop Frye's theories of the Canadian experience; more specifically, his description of the Canadian psychology against the physicality of the landscape. Robyn and I are the only emerging curators involved in FF, and unlike the other exhibitions, this show is installed outdoors and is probably best described as an exhibition-like installation. The photographs chosen (from artists Dylan Hewlett, Sara Cwynar, Natalie Ferguson, Johan Hallberg-Campbell and Noel Rodo-Vankeulen) are placed right onto the brick facades. Sunday, FF will have its closing party in this space from 3-9 at 20 Mowat Ave.
On that note- I'll be posting my favourite photographs exhibited at the 2010 Flash Forward Festival in the coming days. I've already started scribbling names in my trusty notepad.
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